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32 votesOpen - Under review ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
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We will think about this.
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I see the corrections as being primarily for my own benefit (in future searches, and when creating transcriptions for citations), but with the added "feelgood" factor of knowing that it might possibly help someone else, somewhere. But I wouldn't object to some sort of benefit in return. Even something like Ancestry's "thankyou" emails for making corrections to their transcriptions would be better than nothing!
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I agree. Although BNA say they use "state of the art" OCR, it's often very poor, and simply feeding an image of an article to one of the free web-based OCR services often produces far better results than BNA's transcription.
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If you enclose the phrase in double quotes, it will match only that entire phrase, rather than everything with both words (although it still confusingly redisplays the and as AND). So crown and thistle returns 6773 pages, but "crown and thistle" returns only 1133 pages
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10 votesAnonymous
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As for the possibility of people posting "trash", it might be necessary to review and moderate corrections if that became a problem - or does this already happen now?